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The Minutes
Nominated for the 2022 Tony Award® for Best Play and a Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Drama.
What would you do to keep from being the villain in the history books? In the Big Cherry town council meeting, full of backstabbing, personal agendas, and pet peeves, The Minutes explores small town politics and the real-world effects of trying to rewrite history.This scathing comedy about real-world power, from the author of August: Osage County, exposes the ugliness behind some of our most closely-held American narratives while asking each of us what we would do to keep from becoming history’s losers.
Credit: Conor Horgan
TRACY LETTS is a multifaceted award-winning actor and playwright. Letts received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play August: Osage County and a Tony Award for his portrayal of George in the revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. He has written the screenplays of three films adapted from his own plays: BUG and Killer Joe, both directed by William Friedkin, and August: Osage County directed by John Wells.
Mr. Letts is also the author of Superior Donuts, which had its world premiere at Steppenwolf in 2008 and opened on Broadway in 2009; Man from Nebraska, which was produced at Steppenwolf in 2003 and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize; Killer Joe, which has been produced in Chicago, London and New York; and Bug, which has played in New York, Chicago and London.
Tracy resides in Chicago with his wife, Carrie Coon, and is an active member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company.​
“Certain to be the single work of art that best represents, but will also survive, the Trump era.” – Variety
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“Explosive... Deftly captures the tension of patriotic grandiosity and provincial defensiveness found in city halls across the land.” – Chicago Tribune
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“Astonishing... a pitch black comedy about the current state of American politics and the ‘fake news’ elements in our national history... a blood ritual rooted in the more farcical manifestations of local government and parliamentary procedure, and along the way he has explained how some in this country have been brutally sacrificed, and why such sacrifices continue to be sanctioned.” – Chicago Sun-Times
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“The Minutes is also quite funny, silly even. (The council members re-enacting a famous Big Cherry battle is a hoot.) But the questions Letts poses – what are you willing to do, what are you willing to ignore, what are you willing to forget to preserve your ‘cocoon of comfort’? – are provocative. And perennial.” – Daily Herald
Meet the Cast
John Brownlie
(Mr. Peel)
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Matthew Johnson
(Mr. Breeding)
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Lena Vani
(Ms. Matz)
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Patrick French
(Mayor Superba)
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Thomas Mshooshian
(Mr. Hanratty)
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Michael Walker
(Mr. Oldfield)
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Christina Pierro Biggins
(Ms. Johnson)
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Scott Salley
(Mr. Assalone)
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Kaven Matyczynski
(Mr. Carp)
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Elijah Lidonde
(Mr. Blake)
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Cindy Bell
(Ms. Innes)
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